{"id":13591,"date":"2011-11-13T23:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=13591"},"modified":"2011-11-13T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:59:19","slug":"what-will-keep-me-coming-back-to-aha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/11\/13\/what-will-keep-me-coming-back-to-aha\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will Keep Me Coming Back to AHA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.\u00a0 The Fellows include\u00a0Revathi Balakrishnan,<\/a> Eiman Jahangir,<\/a> John Ryan<\/a> (moderator), and Amit Shah<\/a>. Read the previous post here<\/a>. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>This morning I spent my time at a special seminar dedicated to emerging concepts of the right ventricle. My research this year is centered around improving RV function in animals models of pulmonary hypertension. As part of this work, I have spent a lot of time reading the literature, getting familiar with different models and trying to come up with new concepts for treatment. Hearing these senior scientists present their best work, published and unpublished, is a gift.<\/p>\n

AHA attendance is in decline, and some have attributed this to the fact that the major trials get posted online\u00a0 in major journals and then synthesized into\u00a0digestible morsels through sites such CardioExchange and theheart.org, or even on twitter. For me, however, this seminar was an incredible resource that yielded both inspiration and practical guidance as to how to develop research questions in this field and novel concepts that can be employed\u00a0 when looking at endpoints. It is special seminars like this one that I suspect will keep bringing me back to AHA year after year, because they cannot be distilled into 140 characters or any other simple summary.<\/p>\n

For those at AHA this year, what is it the most that brings you back to the meeting annually? The science? The late-breaking clinical trials? The networking? Or the Epcot center<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A special seminar dedicated to emerging concepts of the right ventricle is exemplary of the kind of content that makes AHA worth the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1036,195],"class_list":["post-13591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aha-scientific-sessions","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}